This is very true, but knowing my impatience, I'll probably try something like in within the next two weeks because, you know, I love being miserable for days after.
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This is very true, but knowing my impatience, I'll probably try something like in within the next two weeks because, you know, I love being miserable for days after.
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My dogs aren't very good training partners, either. They're all excited and sprinting for the first 500m, then they suddenly stop to poo (while I stand around awkwardly hoping no one's watching so that no one will judge me for leaving the poo there on their front lawn), then they're all pooped out.
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I miss being able to run at about 1 and 1/3 that pace with the same amount of effort, but I was a wee bit lighter in those days.
Increase bodymass by over 50% and reduce pace by 25% not a bad ratio in fairness but I keep remembering the days when I would consider a 1.5 hour half marathon as unacceptable and now know it is well beyond me.
Increase bodymass by over 50% and reduce pace by 25% not a bad ratio in fairness but I keep remembering the days when I would consider a 1.5 hour half marathon as unacceptable and now know it is well beyond me.
Don't like treadmills. Though have used a reasonably good one recently. Ran 2km on it in 10 minutes and was fairly happy with the feel.
Decades of running on roads means I really struggle transferring to a mill.
It is one of the things I really cling to with an unreasonable amount of determination, my ability to run at a good pace for distance. When I was 9 stones, that was easy, 12 stones a bit harder but not stupid, now approaching 14 stones which is nearly 200 pounds there is a nagging doubt that expecting myself to run at over 7.5mph for distance is reasonable. That won't stop me doing it of course.
Decades of running on roads means I really struggle transferring to a mill.
It is one of the things I really cling to with an unreasonable amount of determination, my ability to run at a good pace for distance. When I was 9 stones, that was easy, 12 stones a bit harder but not stupid, now approaching 14 stones which is nearly 200 pounds there is a nagging doubt that expecting myself to run at over 7.5mph for distance is reasonable. That won't stop me doing it of course.
I got used to running on a treadmill because the weather here is so extreme that your body just can't get used to it. In the last three days here(Virginia) it's gone from 70 degrees to snowing, and it's going to go back up to 70 by this weekend. Sadly, that's "normal". Don't even get me started on the humidity during the summer. It's so thick outside that you can't breathe when trying to do any kind of activity. I used to try to run outdoors, but I got so sick of the dramatic shifts from day to day that I just gave up and started hoofing it on my treadmill.
Part of the reason I hate treadmills is the time it takes them to change pace. Intervals are horrible, by the time you get up to pace half your sprint has gone and when you are dying and want to slow down they are easing off gently.
If there are no alternatives they are far better than no running at all though.
If there are no alternatives they are far better than no running at all though.
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Went into it determined to get 5 circuits, which was unrealistic. At the end of the third I thought it was possible because everything had been done in one go til that point. Break for breath and water between circuits nothing else.
Squats in circuit 4 were my first introduction to the fact 5 might not be possible, set of 10 became 3, 5, 8, 10 due to having to rerack 3 times in the set. By the time I got to the end I mustered a last bit of adrenalin to get the jumps done then had to concede defeat and stop.
I am happy to have done the whole thing without having to drop weight etc. and feel confident I will get 5 in the next week or 2, maybe six by the end of block. That is not likely to get me to 20 minutes, but I think aiming for that with those weights was too much anyway.
I guess intervals during lunch won't have helped though.
Squats in circuit 4 were my first introduction to the fact 5 might not be possible, set of 10 became 3, 5, 8, 10 due to having to rerack 3 times in the set. By the time I got to the end I mustered a last bit of adrenalin to get the jumps done then had to concede defeat and stop.
I am happy to have done the whole thing without having to drop weight etc. and feel confident I will get 5 in the next week or 2, maybe six by the end of block. That is not likely to get me to 20 minutes, but I think aiming for that with those weights was too much anyway.
I guess intervals during lunch won't have helped though.
Part of the reason I hate treadmills is the time it takes them to change pace. Intervals are horrible, by the time you get up to pace half your sprint has gone and when you are dying and want to slow down they are easing off gently.
If there are no alternatives they are far better than no running at all though.
I know those feels.
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